Problem with Codepage / Special character viuialisation

[Ralfk]

Hello everybody

maybe you can help me with my actual Power BI problem, which causes me a lot of troubles during my first walking attempts with PB:

My datasource is a DB2-database (encoding ISO8859-1).

The preview of the imported data in Power Bi shows problems with german special characters, like ‘ö’, ‘ä’, etc.

1. tried the following solutions until now:
   checking the general language setting:
   -> set to German
   ->Refreshing the data, but without success
   
   
   
2. adding a custom column in order to adapt the language-problem:
   
   
   But the result look quite similar as the original column…
   
   I  tried several different enodings, but without success.
   
   

Can you help me out???

Regards Ralf

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @Ralfk,

Based on your information, I'm a little confused about your requirement. 

Do you want to convert the special character in german to standard character?

I'm not good at Power Query, @ImkeF may help you.

In addition, you could share some data sample and your desired output so that we could understand your requirement better and get the solution.

Best Regards,

Cherry

[Ralfk]

Hi Cherry,

i'm sorry to confuse you!
Well let's try to give some more details:

These German special characters are already stored correctly in the DB2 -database.

Example:
The town, 'Cologne' is called in German 'Köln'. This is what I wanted to see in my example instead  of these strange symbols....

In general I can retrieve these data out of the DB and visualize it without any problems.
And as I'm working in the same PC with Power BI and other BI-tools, I can not understand what goes wrong .....

I hope to explain my problem a little bit clearer now....

Regards Ralf

[ImkeF]

Tbh, that's not my strong suit and I also alway play around with different encodings.

Lately I had some cases where 65001 and 1250 worked (I'm sitting in Germany as well).

Otherwise you can try to apply the decoding with an optional parameter in your first import-step already: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/query-bi/m/db2-database 

[Ralfk]

Hi Imke,

thanks for your reply!

I must adsmit that I have no idea how to implement your advice.....

Is this a function I have to add in the query definition??
query definition

Regards Ralf

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @Ralfk,

Have you solved your problem?

If you have solved, please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

[ImkeF]

You have to tweak the code where you import from the DB2-database.

Currently it should look like so:

DB2.Database(<YourServername>, <YourDatabasename>)

try adding a "1" in a record at the end:

DB2.Database(<YourServername>, <YourDatabasename>, [BinaryCodePage= 1])